This glossary is based on a work still in progress, which aims at listing as completely as possible the legal framework of administrative detention in terms of administrative, civil and criminal law for the whole of Switzerland (see project regarding the online edition of the laws, IEC website, underway).

Warning: while consulting this source it is necessary to take two elements into account: firstly, considering that the work is still in progress and the scope and the complexity of the legal context in which administrative detention is set, the glossary is not complete; therefore, the number of acts indicated for each Canton does not allow to infer the relative significance of the cantonal legal framework on administrative detention. Secondly, the acts listed do not concern only administrative detention. There are also laws, decisions, decrees, regulations, etc. regarding social and political issues in general (for example: assistance, alcohol, vagrancy, public order and hygiene, etc.), to which administrative detention seemed a possible repressive answer in the course of time.

All of the raw data and the documentation for each visualisation is available on the Open Data Swiss Portal, follow this link to access them: opendata.swiss/de/dataset/anstaltstopografie.

On that page it is possible to retrieve the following:

• PDF versions of the original directories
• The complete list of all recorded facilities (institutional landmarks)
• Topographies of facilities divided by directories
• The summary dataset suitable for computation
• Datasets specifically re-structured in order to create each one of the visualisations of this webpage

The interactive glossaries can be accessed through the following addresses:

• Glossary of events and legal texts
• Glossary of facilities